What is the relationship between high fertility and poverty in the developing countries today?
a. High fertility is the primary cause of poverty.
b. Poverty is the primary cause of high fertility.
c. High fertility is not the only or even the major cause of poverty.
d. There is no relationship between these concepts.
Question 2Approximately __________ people in the world are seriously undernourished.
a. 3 million
b. 1 billion
c. 1/2 billion
d. 25 million
Question 3Your textbook advocates all of the following as immediate responses to the destruction of the global environment EXCEPT:
a. reducing rural poverty.
b. improving farming practices.
c. reducing the debt of less- and least-developed countries.
d. giving the U.S. greater control over the resources in developing nations.
Question 4In sub-Saharan Africa, the destruction of the environment is mainly:
a. a poverty problem.
b. a personal problem.
c. not our problem.
d. a population problem.
Question 5In the most-developed countries, environmental destruction:
a. is a population problem.
b. results from way of life more than population pressure.
c. is the result of overpopulation plus standard of living.
d. is not a problem as it is in the least-developed countries.
Question 6Since 1950, the average number of births per woman has:
a. decreased in every part of the world.
b. increased in every part of the world.
c. remained the same in every part of the world.
d. increased everywhere except for Western Europe.
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